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Program includes works by William Billings, Moses Hogan, Aaron Copland and the premiere of a choral version of Nolan Gasser’s Repast, based on a story from Civil Rights.
LOUIS BURKOT director
with guest artist ROBERT HONEYSUCKER baritone
The Glee Club meditates on American grit and determination with early American works by William Billings, folk- and spiritual-based pieces by Aaron Copland and Moses Hogan, and the premiere of a choral version of Nolan Gasser’s Repast, a compelling 2014 oratorio based on a true story from the 1960s Civil Rights struggle. Based on the story of little-known 1960s Civil Rights hero Booker Wright, who waited tables in a whites-only restaurant while running his own famed eatery on the African American side of town, Repast gives poet Kevin Young’s poignant yet steely-eyed libretto a setting that sweeps majestically from blues to gospel to field holler to classical inflections.
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